Comments on: Mole Cricket from Iraq http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2009/12/03/mole-cricket-from-iraq-3/ Are we experts yet? Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:43:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: waterbug http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2009/12/03/mole-cricket-from-iraq-3/comment-page-1/#comment-25289 waterbug Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:23:24 +0000 http://www.whatsthatbug.com/?p=22057#comment-25289 Sorry - That person's bugophobic e-mail caught me first thing on a grumpy morning. I actually think you are doing a great job. Sorry – That person’s bugophobic e-mail caught me first thing on a grumpy morning. I actually think you are doing a great job.

]]> By: bugman http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2009/12/03/mole-cricket-from-iraq-3/comment-page-1/#comment-25281 bugman Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:21:29 +0000 http://www.whatsthatbug.com/?p=22057#comment-25281 Thank you for helping us to do our job. Though we take care to address as many questions our readership sends to us, we are sometimes brief in our responses. Thank you for helping us to do our job. Though we take care to address as many questions our readership sends to us, we are sometimes brief in our responses.

]]> By: waterbug http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2009/12/03/mole-cricket-from-iraq-3/comment-page-1/#comment-25280 waterbug Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:25:18 +0000 http://www.whatsthatbug.com/?p=22057#comment-25280 I'm surprised you'd post such an ignorant e-mail without any attempt to try to educate the sender. 1. Rat droppings are irrelevant and coincidental. This insect doesn't eat or live in them. 2. "Bottomfeeder" is usually meant in pejorative manner. Yes, this insect lives in the ground and eats things at "the bottom" (roots, worms, etc.). So what? Cows eat grass growing low to the ground (that grows in their own dung). I imagine the sender eats beef without hesitance. 3. "Nasty"? This insect never hurt anybody, and certainly never marched into somebody else's country with a gun in it's claw. In fact, this insect is one of the more fascinating types to many people because of its impressive adaptations to living in the soil. I’m surprised you’d post such an ignorant e-mail without any attempt to try to educate the sender.

1. Rat droppings are irrelevant and coincidental. This insect doesn’t eat or live in them.

2. “Bottomfeeder” is usually meant in pejorative manner. Yes, this insect lives in the ground and eats things at “the bottom” (roots, worms, etc.). So what? Cows eat grass growing low to the ground (that grows in their own dung). I imagine the sender eats beef without hesitance.

3. “Nasty”? This insect never hurt anybody, and certainly never marched into somebody else’s country with a gun in it’s claw. In fact, this insect is one of the more fascinating types to many people because of its impressive adaptations to living in the soil.

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